Because the entrance to Diagon Alley is physically less than 40 feet away from the real-life Charing Cross Road, which is packed chock full of Muggles on their cell phones all day?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis
Exactly. And? Magic doesn’t seek out technology to interfere with. The electronics and the magic don’t interact. What’s the problem here?
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @TrueMetis
Okay, so Harry could in fact have brought a cell phone or a two way radio to Hogwarts and it would've worked fine as long as he didn't use it to "interact" with anything magic That would've made a lot of things easier
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis
No, that’s a different point - the electronics in Charing Cross aren’t in Diagon Alley. If a phone was brought to Hogwarts, it wouldn’t work, that’s be reiterated
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @TrueMetis
Okay you understand that in the normal Muggle world of physics as we understand it, borders are just labels and the world is actually a continuous space
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis
???
This whole argument is “what if I punch my sister”
“But she’s in the next room, there’s a wall in the way which protects it”
“Yes but you might still interfere!”
“There’s a wall?”
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @TrueMetis
Okay see that's the point, no one ever actually said there was some kind of wall that blocks this effect or how that wall works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis
Well the magic is contained, and it’s behind rhe Leaky Cauldron, which is also inaccessible to Muggles if I recall. There’s magical and physical boundaries that stop Muggles and electronics from going near Diagon Alley
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @arthur_affect
But it's not, muggle cannot see the Leaky Cauldron, and for that to work the magic must extend past the Leaky Cauldron. So if I'm standing outside of the Leaky Cauldron, and I can't see it cause the magic is screwing with my head, why isn't it screw with my cellphone?
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By the way on the subject of "fan invented lore that's not actually canon", the spell the protect the Leaky Cauldron is called the Notice Me Not Charm. Never called that in the books, never even really explained. Pretty much the entire subject of Warding fall under that umbrella.
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Yeah and the whole thing about the Notice-Me-Not Charm existing at all is that makes Harry's actual Invisibility Cloak a worse solution, and raises all these questions about why it wasn't used in other contexts The best you can say is "It only works on Muggles"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis
The charm is fan-made and thus any argument you make on it is redundant, about the use of it vs the Invisibilty Cloak. The Muggle-Repelling charm is literally a thing, if you want to say “you can’t make spells that only work on Muggles”
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